Subtle like the Sphinx

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

At first I thought the first pic was Pinocchio waterboarding Pinocchio and the others were spectators.

Your first thought was right, Matt!

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

too bad aboot that movie with john malkovich and frances mcdormand.....sounds like you guys werent imprezzed.   i think frances mcdormand is my fave actress, and i cunt see from the smoke in me eyes to tell if i typed her name correctly

I recommend it to Coen Bros fans.

Its aimlessness is a product of character study and an art unto itself.

[matthew]

At first I thought the first pic was Pinocchio waterboarding Pinocchio and the others were spectators.

Your first thought was right, Matt!

I had a feeling someone would come and tell me that.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

I'm hardly the first person to say it this week, but I just can't escape the thought:    If we can pull a trillion dollar out of our asses at the drop of a hat... how about a trillion dollar R&D initiative to cease the use of carbon fuels and stave off WWIII?   Really.   

The Earth:  Its too big to fail.

the elephant in the room.   also, why give the money to the banks?  give it to the people so they can pay the damn mortgages!  banks get their money.  people keep their houses.  and 50 years from now, we all laugh at how socialism saved america. 

No one will trust my math now, but...

We'll have over 3 mil households foreclose this year.  I'll guess another 2 mil could be borderline.  If you could make, say 3 payments for them, it might hold off the foreclosure for the year.

The average mortgage payment is $2000/month, so that would cost $30 billion/year.

At that rate the buyout money would last over 30 years.

Hell, you could budget $100 bil/year for this purpose and the money would last almost a decade.


I'm not saying this is the best use of US capital, BUT...Bottom line for me is I'm not convinced that mortgages are the number one cause for the financial institutions collapsing.  Why are average people being blamed here?

[Tripp]

I was a fry-cook at Sun Studio in 99 when O Brother Where Art Though was being filmed in Miss..

One day Frances mcDormand and chirruns came and took the tour. Four of us peeked out the front door as they were leaving and our friend Karen (bassist, grown-up wrongs) yelled out "HEY FRANCES McDERMOTT!!"

she turned and yelled "MACDORMANNNDD!!"

twas quite funny.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

It's also funny because Dermot Mulroney is in the new movie.

[Tripp]

I'm hardly the first person to say it this week, but I just can't escape the thought:    If we can pull a trillion dollar out of our asses at the drop of a hat... how about a trillion dollar R&D initiative to cease the use of carbon fuels and stave off WWIII?   Really.   

The Earth:  Its too big to fail.

the elephant in the room.   also, why give the money to the banks?  give it to the people so they can pay the damn mortgages!  banks get their money.  people keep their houses.  and 50 years from now, we all laugh at how socialism saved america. 

No one will trust my math now, but...

We'll have over 3 mil households foreclose this year.  I'll guess another 2 mil could be borderline.  If you could make, say 3 payments for them, it might hold off the foreclosure for the year.

The average mortgage payment is $2000/month, so that would cost $30 billion/year.

At that rate the buyout money would last over 30 years.

Hell, you could budget $100 bil/year for this purpose and the money would last almost a decade.


I'm not saying this is the best use of US capital, BUT...Bottom line for me is I'm not convinced that mortgages are the number one cause for the financial institutions collapsing.  Why are average people being blamed here?

because it was planned. I think ..hope,, it;s gonna backfire because NO AMERICAN wants to bail out a bank or an insurance company. Especially in a time where we've all experienced or heard tell of these institutions bilking us.

THEY


ARE

CASHING

OUT.

[Tripp]

MACDREAMY!!

[Tripp]

and mark my words..


all these CEO's are gonna relocate to Dubai in the next few months.

[Tripp]

the funniest scen in The Searchers is on right now on AMC.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

Now it's a commercial.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

They should just build an elevator straight to hell in Dubai.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

[matthew]

I'm hardly the first person to say it this week, but I just can't escape the thought:    If we can pull a trillion dollar out of our asses at the drop of a hat... how about a trillion dollar R&D initiative to cease the use of carbon fuels and stave off WWIII?   Really.  

The Earth:  Its too big to fail.

the elephant in the room.   also, why give the money to the banks?  give it to the people so they can pay the damn mortgages!  banks get their money.  people keep their houses.  and 50 years from now, we all laugh at how socialism saved america. 

No one will trust my math now, but...

We'll have over 3 mil households foreclose this year.  I'll guess another 2 mil could be borderline.  If you could make, say 3 payments for them, it might hold off the foreclosure for the year.

The average mortgage payment is $2000/month, so that would cost $30 billion/year.

At that rate the buyout money would last over 30 years.

Hell, you could budget $100 bil/year for this purpose and the money would last almost a decade.


I'm not saying this is the best use of US capital, BUT...Bottom line for me is I'm not convinced that mortgages are the number one cause for the financial institutions collapsing.  Why are average people being blamed here?

The problem is...American use of carbon fuels is not what might set off WWIII. America has incredible access to oil the world over...often from its sworn enemies (Venezuela is one current example...Saddam shipped oil up to the U.S. until the day the Gulf War began...and then he resumed again after under sanctions.). The U.S. did not go to Iraq to steal oil, they went to Iraq to prevent it from falling outside their control. This precisely why McCain's "drill in Alaska and become energy independent" line is so absurd. Even if 100% of America's oil could be derived from ANWR, the U.S. would ABSOLUTELY CONTINUE TO INTERFERE WITH OTHER NATIONS...in fact, it would likely interfere more audaciously because it could do so MORE COMFORTABLY (as they would no longer have to factor the oil market into their military planning and strategy). Tehran might have been flattened by now if they were unworried about the Straight of Hormuz being strangled by Iran in response.

[full blown possession]

I was a fry-cook at Sun Studio in 99 when O Brother Where Art Though was being filmed in Miss..

One day Frances mcDormand and chirruns came and took the tour. Four of us peeked out the front door as they were leaving and our friend Karen (bassist, grown-up wrongs) yelled out "HEY FRANCES McDERMOTT!!"

she turned and yelled "MACDORMANNNDD!!"

twas quite funny.

that is funny and she is gonna play me when they do a movie aboot my exciting life


that kissi or whatever her name story was funny too jsg, i wish i was there too observe ryan go through that one!


pukeface is trying to transfer debt to me now, i am laughing cause what else can he do but off me,  i was never the responsible party for matt's braces and now the bills are coming to me for nonpayment even though divorce decree says he pays insurance.  blah blah blah blah blah

OK SOMEONE CALLED ME AT 1252 AM PRIVATE....im thinking oh it was a drunk friend but you kind of have to have your wherewithal to dial the private caller way, although i am a highly functioning drunk ...i didnt wake up though yay! 

dave letterman was on a roll last night aboot the great depression and so on, i didnt make it to julianne moore or kings of leon to see if they upped their intensity from snl, i was wiped oot

matthew has some great, epic reading material on the other thread, im glad im piss poor and dont have my pennies in the bank or invested...

modest mouse rulz